Famous Quotes & Sayings

Larry Ellison

Autonomy was shopped to us. We looked at the price and thought it was absurdly high.

Christine Vachon

The only way we can do what we do is to be absurdly optimistic,

Lou Reed

He's a great guy, absurdly talented, and he seemed ready to sing. It's these parts he can come up with, these ways of double tracking, these really unusual harmonies - I could listen to Antony all day.

Sathya Baba

Limiting birth by artificial means is an absurdly wrong step. The consequences of this act are irresponsible fatherhood or frustrated motherhood.

Nathan Brookwood

I don't know how much Apple pays for that IBM chip, but you can bet it's absurdly low. Apple has this crazy idea that it shouldn't have to pay as much as everyone else. And whatever it's paying for the IBM chip, I'm sure it's paying more for the Intel chip.

Mac Smith

There's an absurdly picky ski patrol this year. To us this is epic: If you have a job you don't like, you quit.

T. E. Lawrence

I've been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I'm quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself.

Oscar Wilde

People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately

Preston Sturges

The camera must point at the exact spot the audience wishes to look at any given moment. To find that spot is absurdly easy: you only have to remember where you were looking at the time the scene was made.

Kumail Nanjiani

The worst job I ever had was an office job that I had for six years, and that's nothing against the people who I was surrounded by, because they were wonderful people.

Ricky Williams

Lunch or dinner? Well, I work, so I'll say dinner, ... I have a job now.

Ricky Williams

Lunch or dinner? Well, I'm at work, so it'll have to be dinner. I have a job now.

Marc Warren

Life as an actor has toughened me up, and I've learned that you shouldn't take things too personally. Someone once said that to do this job you need talent, luck and a thick skin - which is so true.

Gary Mickelson

legal obligation to do their job and are not part of this dispute.

Martha Stewart

Many, many people have suffered. People have lost jobs. I am very saddened and very, very sorry for that.

Ruth Rendell

Many people have a profession or a job - most people do, I should think. And they do it. And that's what I did.

Kelly Meek

Scotty knows our system so well, anyway. He is doing a super job playing within what he has.

Martin O'Malley

Senator Mikulski has done an outstanding job representing Maryland in the U.S. Senate for nearly 30 years.

Ann Jennings

We sent in, let's just say, a lot of patrol officers,

Jon Carlisle

What we tell our maintenance crews who patrol the roads is that if it's reasonable and is not a distraction, they should let it stand.

Michael Barrett

He's not able to return as a patrol officer, because he still has weakness. He wouldn't be able to run after and apprehend a suspect.

David Chang

Any processed chicken from any place - I'll order it in a heartbeat. I'm very picky about my pork, though.

Susan Williams

We're pretty picky on those kind, and my first reaction was it was an error.

Scott Speedman

I'm pretty picky about what I want to do.

Jeff Quackenbush

I'm really picky about our post players. I probably talk to Cory more than any of our other players.

Denene Millner

I knew that Steve Harvey had a good, solid message to share, and I wanted to use my knowledge and skills as a relationship author to help him bring his message to those who were willing to receive it.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Develop a skin as thick as a rhinoceros hide!

Eleanor Roosevelt

Every woman in public life needs to develop skin as tough as rhinoceros hide,

Ed Parker

Condition and guts take over where knowledge and skill end.

Earl Nightingale

Getting along well with other people is still the world's most needed skill. With it...there is no limit to what person can do. We need people, we need the cooperation of others. There is very little we can do alone

Eliot Spitzer

Imagine if the pension funds and endowments that own much of the equity in our financial services companies demanded that those companies revisit the way mortgages were marketed to those without adequate skills to understand the products they were being sold. Management would have to change the way things were done.

David Nicholls

Afterward, there was some debate as to whether we'd actually "done it properly," which gives you some idea of the awesome skill and artful dexterity of my lovemaking technique.

Kim Hostman

She has a lot of new skills that she's working on. Hopefully, she'll have them down for conference.

Emma Watson

I think the actresses who are really successful are the ones who are comfortable in their own skins and still look human.